Farm-gate.



No. 674,894. Patented May 28, 190|.

H. E. YOUNG.

FARMGATE.

(Application led July 23, 1900,)

(No Model.)

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HENRY E. YOUNG, OF ROANOKE, INDIANA.

FARM-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,894, dated May 28,1901.

Application led July 23, 1900.

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Be it known that I, HENRY E. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States,residing atRoanoke, in the county of Huntington, in the State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFarm-Gates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in farm-gates.

The object of the invention is to provide a cheap, simple, andsubstantial gate of the character mentioned and one which is especiallyadapted for use in interior fences for the separation of stock, but alsodesigned for other ordinary farm purposes.

To this end the invention consists in a swinging frame formed of amovable pivoted upright post, a pivoted diagonal brace, and a horizontalstay-rod connecting the upper ends of said post and brace, combined witha gate suspended from the forward end of the frame and a detachable rodadapted to connect the upper end of the diagonal brace to either theforward end of the gate or the bottom portion thereof, as will be morefully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side eleva-tion of a gateembodying the herein-described invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view,partly broken away, of another form of gate. Fig. 3 is a detailperspective View, on an enlarged scale, of the upper end of the diagonalbrace, showing the manner of connecting thereto the adjacent ends of thestay and locking rods.

The gate-frame is formed of the horizontal boards l, in parallelarrangement, secured'to the upright cross-pieces 2 at the ends andmidway of the ends thereof in the usual manner and provided with properxed posts 3. On the inner face of one of the said posts are arrangedsuitable pivot-hinges 4, on which the pivoted post 5 is mounted by meansof the apertured horizontal plates 6 on the ends thereof. The diagonalbrace 7 has its lower Serial No. 212.495. (No model.)

end provided with a vertical opening for the admission of the lower oneof the said hinges 4L, on which the said brace is pivotally supported.The upper end of the said brace is apertured to loosely admit thescrew-threaded forward end of the stay-rod 8 and is secured therein bymeans of a nut 9. The other end of the rod is so folded upon itself asto form an eye and is then loosely mounted on the upper one of the saidhinges 4c. This rod S thus stays and Iirmly secures the upper end ofsaid brace, from which the gate-frame is supported. The distance betweenthe upper end of the said post 5 and the upper end of the said bracecan, to a limited extent, be lengthened or shortened by adjust-ing thenut 9, thereby slightly raising or lowering the gate-frame.

In the top of the brace 7 is rigidly fixed a loop or eye I5, Fig. 3, onwhich is mounted a ring 16, and in this ring 16 is loosely arranged thehooked end 17 of av locking-rod 14, the other hooked end of which isadapted to be detachably connected in the staples I8 or I9, arranged,respectively, at the outer end and bottom portions of the gate l. Whenconnected to the staple 19, the rod 14 secures the gate l againstvertical displacement by stock and atthe same ti me forms a pivotalpoint between the ends of the gate, upon which the latter may swingindependently of the hinges 4; but should it be desired the post 5 maybe dispensed with, and in this event the rod 14: will be permanentlyhooked in the staple 19, as shown in Fig. 2.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the herein-described inventionprovides a gate which is cheap, simple, efficient in use, and reliablein operation and one which is reduced to a minimum number of parts. Itwill also be understood, however, that the invention is susceptible ofvarious changes, and the right is therefore reserved to modify or varythe invention as falls within the spirit and scope thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by LettersPatent isl. The combination in a farm-gate of a swinging frame formed ofa removable pivoted upright post, a pivoted diagonal piece, and ahorizontal stay-rod connecting the up- IOO 1o as shown; a gate suspendedfrom said frame;

and a Vertical locking-rod connecting the top of said frame with thebottom of the gate.

Signed by me at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen and State of Indiana,this 14th day of July, A. D. 1900.

HENRY E. YOUNG.

Witnesses ADELAIDE KEARNS, AUGUSTA VIBERG.

